>>>> Is there a way around the 1GB File size limitation on Ext2?
>>>> I'm pulling a bunch of stuff of a tape from a mainframe, and
>>>> the files are about 3GB in size.
>>> It's actually 2 GB, but the answer, for now, is unfortunately
>>> "no". Large file support for ext2 is supposed to go into 2.3.
>> Something's got me puzzled here - I hadn't realised there was a
>> limit of either 1G or 2G on ext2 partitions - indeed, one of the
>> systems I use has an ext2 partition that's 3,952,477,184 bytes in
>> size, which is somewhere around 3.7G according to my calculations.
>> Perhaps somebody could advise what the actual situation is?
> The size of the partition is not the problem here. This is the
> size of a file. For sure you can create 9gig partition with
> ext2 now without problem, but you can't create a 3gig file in
> it.
Does that mean there will be an ext3 filesystem soon which is
basically ext2 with those limits expanded?
Best wishes from Riley.
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